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- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
decisions to voluntarily submit to regulation. We study individuals' decisions to avoid monitoring or regulation and thus enhance their ability to engage in unethical conduct. We conduct a laboratory experiment in which participants... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
capital firm Polaris Partners, and former executive at Pfizer, Schulman has worked in some 90 countries around the world. "The key to creating collaborative teams within diverse environments, is to find strategies that increase the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Profile
Ignacio Lartirigoyen
executives and the board. "It gave me a lot of exposure to senior management and helped me learn how to communicate agribusiness in financial terms," he says. In 2016, he shifted once again to an Argentine agribusiness jointly... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
ability to benefit from private information. Consistent with these expectations, we find that abnormal returns to insider purchases-used to proxy for private information-are reduced following IFRS adoption. Similar results are derived... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
VisiCalc is long gone—but the tech industry has embraced lessons learned by its experience that continue to shape strategy and decision-making of engineers and executives alike. Among those lessons: First, new empires take shape at the... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
high volume continuous flow manufacturer of commodities chips to a job shop structure that focused on custom manufacturing services. This entailed more than rearranging the manufacturing lines; it meant a dramatic shift in the company culture. Wang also had to ensure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students
How do you think learning through the case method will help you in your future endeavors?The case method was one of the main reasons why I wanted to attend HBS. I knew the case method would help sharpen my ability to think fast while... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
psychological biases and errors that reduce the accuracy of human perception, sense making, estimation, and attribution.1 These can hinder the human ability to analyze failure effectively. People tend to be more comfortable attending to... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
required three kinds of specialists: business managers, country managers, and functional managers, with a group of senior executives to coordinate the efforts of the specialists. In 2003, as globalization has become a much more pressing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 04 Nov 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Do We Chase Stars?
leadership," according to Fidel Arcenas. As Ratnaja Gogula put it, " traits (that) make women better contenders for talent portability (include) women's ability to better cope with stress, better communicate and multi-task... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where CEO wealth is sensitive to change in the share price, (2) where announced earnings are particularly likely to be an important source of information about managerial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
September–October 2016 European Business Review What Senior Executives Should Know About Sales By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—Business is more complex, data more abundant, and more specialists are needed to stay up-to-date with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
modern-day sales management. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity: Kristen Senz: What shifts in sales should managers and executives be aware of right now? Frank Cespedes: Prospects are now online and offline throughout... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
number of the School's comprehensive leadership and focused Executive Education program offerings. In everything he did, Christensen sought to help his students understand the powerful way they could be a force for good in society and in... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
Ghemawat explained to the audience in his introduction, is one of the first "outputs" of the School's new Latin America Research Center (LARC). It was co-written by Ghemawat with LARC executive director Gustavo Herrero and... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
apart; the less they share, the more likely they are to be best executed separately. Nevertheless, managing multiple models is a tall order. LAN has had to face greater complexity, broaden its organizational skills, increase the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
managers and executives who purposefully address the behavioral issues in demand planning. They see the problem in demand planning in terms of the behavioral dynamics involved rather than, say, as an optimization problem with objective to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
healthcare. After eight years in leadership roles at the Hospital for Special Surgery, Rentas joined the New York State Executive Chamber as Assistant Director of Health in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. She has since returned to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
their own priorities, was a time-consuming challenge for Enan, he recalls. “It was a real exercise in navigating various congressional committees and the general power structure in Washington,” Harmon says. “Enan’s ability to relate to... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
transparency,” says Cullen, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. Meanwhile, the legal landscape has shifted in recent years toward transparency. Laws and policies that protect workers’ ability to discuss... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman